Episode 343 : Sony’s Changing The Game

Will Sony’s new direction change the landscape of gaming?

Greetings adventurers, and welcome to this weeks installment of The Surly Nerd! After our prelude, we head right into the weekly raid (our news roundup).
Kicking things off this week, Torchlight 3 has been announced and we could not be more excited. The developers of Hellblade announced a new experimental title and The Boys is coming back to comics in a huge way.
Also this week, more Marvel shows are getting axed from Hulu. The Witcher is getting an animated feature and Justice League Dark is getting picked back up by Bad Robot. We close out the news this week with huge esports changes coming thanks to Activision Blizzard.
Our Boss Room this week is about Sony first party titles coming to PC and what that means for the future of gaming.
As always, we appreciate all our adventurers who listen to the show every week and we look forward to your feedback on what we discuss! (info@thesurlynerd.com!)
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Episode 316 : EA Needs to Stop

EA Games is back to make everyone’s lives miserable!

Greetings adventurers, and welcome to this weeks installment of The Surly Nerd! After our prelude, we head right into the weekly raid (our news roundup).
Kicking things off this week, Cyberpunk takes center stage as we get a break down on how their DLC will work and discuss the all-new tabletop RPG coming out that will act as a prelude to the main CDPR game. From there we move to Bungie and their in-office quality of life changes and DC Comics’ plan for the Vertigo line.
The comic news keeps rolling in as we talk about Netflix’s plan for the Dark Crystal. JJ Abrams is teaming up with his son to work on a special Spider-Man project for Marvel comics and our raid winds down as we talk about Take-Two’s CEO’s opinion on video game unions. (spoilers, it’s not great)
Our Boss Room this week is about EA games and what they have been doing (and ruining) in the world of video games.
As always, we appreciate all our adventurers who listen to the show every week and we look forward to your feedback on what we discuss! (info@thesurlynerd.com!)
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Episode 242 : 2018 HYPE

With 2018 before us, we are breaking in the new year happy and hopeful for the pop culture to come!

Hello 2018
Greetings adventurers, and welcome to this weeks installment of The Surly Nerd! This is a very special “one off” bonus episode, all about what’s got us HYPED for being nerds in 2018.
Join us for our our first episode of the year and GET HYPED!
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Episode 230 : Inhumans Vs. X-Men (Now On TV!)

The Inhumans are competing against the X-men, but this time…ON TV!

When it comes to TV, who will win?
Greetings adventurers, and welcome to this weeks installment of The Surly Nerd! After our prelude, we head into comics where NYCC is in FULL EFFECT and DC’s comes out swinging as they bring back both VERTIGO and their YOUNG ANIMAL lines. Also from NYCC, we have an awesome new graphic novel from Neil Gaiman and Joss Whedon is coming back to BUFFY, for an all new comic series!
Heading into level two, Phil Spencer tells us why he thinks backwards compatibility is important and we tell you if he’s right or not. Also in gaming this week, we have a big C64 (really?) announcement as well as a TOTALLY non-political news bit about how the crew behind WOLFENSTEIN wants to “Make America Nazi-free again”.
Over in the world of entertainment, we have a TON of CONSTANTINE annoucements from NYCC. We also have brand-new revelations about the SPAWN movie and we close out level 3 with a movie near and dear to our hearts: Behind The Mask.
Our epilogue is week is all about The Inhumans show vs The Gifted.
As always, we appreciate all our adventurers who listen to the show every week and we look forward to your feedback on what we discuss! (info@thesurlynerd.com!)
Grab a drink and settle on in for this weeks action packed episode of…The Surly Nerd!
Read about the things we love to talk about!
All about The Gifted: https://www.hulu.com/the-gifted
Check out The Inhumans!: http://abc.go.com/shows/marvels-inhumans
Horror cupcakes!: https://www.candystore.com/blog/diy/18-scary-good-cupcake-recipes-need-try-halloween/
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Episode 207 : E-Sports And Chaos (200 redux)

We are revisiting e-sports – but this time with special guests!

This episode is pure chaos
Greetings adventurers, and welcome to this weeks installment of The Surly Nerd! After our prelude, we kick things off in comics where the Ghastly awards is going away and Mark Millar has an awesome new annoucement. We close out level one with a talk about Free Comic Book Day and why you should go!
Heading into level two, 343 is trying to fix what they broke in Halo 5, and we get into why it’s wrong for Nintendo to not head on out to E3 this year.
Over in the world of entertainment, Sandman might come to TV – but can it Really happen this time? Level three ends with a debate about the Marvel “phases” concept and if Marvel should drop it all together.
Our epilogue is us revisiting E-sports, but this time with some very special guests. As always, we appreciate all our adventurers who listen to the show every week and we look forward to your feedback on what we discuss! (info@thesurlynerd.com!)
Grab a drink and settle on in for this weeks action packed episode of…The Surly Nerd!
Read about the things we love to talk about!
All about Dreamhack : https://www.dreamhack.se/splash/
Check out Sandman: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandman
Batman cupcakes!: http://www.myrecipes.com/recipe/batman-cupcakes
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